I had an excellent Calculus teacher in high school, and I did very well on the AP exam. It was still vastly more challenging than the trigonometry class that pr

I had an excellent Calculus teacher in high school, and I did very well on the AP exam. It was still vastly more challenging than the trigonometry class that preceded it. Even today, I use trigonometry all the time almost without thinking, but I can't for the life of me remember how to long-divide polynomials (or picture a scenario where I'd need to). There's just so friggin much deeply abstract symbol manipulation in calculus class (which in school also covers essentially "advanced algebra"). It's a different ball game.